Claire Garnier-Tardieu is Professor Emerita at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle. Her interest in Kathleen Raine dates back to the 1980s, when she met the great British poet and wrote a PhD on her work. She is the author of translations, articles and a biographical essay. She has recently organized an International Conference on Raine in Paris and given several lectures on the topic.

Jessica Stephens is a senior lecturer at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, where she teaches literary translation. Her publications include articles on Alice Oswald, Dylan Thomas, T. S. Eliot, Seamus Heaney, Racine, etc. She has edited and co-edited several volumes of the translation studies journal Palimpsestes and co-edited a book on the notion of resistance in British poetry.